O&M Cost of the RITIS system maintained by the University of Maryland, covering the greater Washington DC region and parts of the East Coast.
Washington DC, District of Columbia, United States
The CATT Laboratory at the University of Maryland has been developing the Regional Integrated Transportation Information System (RITIS) over the past decade, beginning with the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and expanding to cover states along the East Coast. RITIS incorporates data from several types of sources including transit AVL, traffic cameras, crash data, emergency responder dispatch, and weather information. These data come from several agencies and in unstandardized formats across systems. RITIS standardizes the raw data from the various agencies and displays it through multiple visualization tools in order to allow participating agencies to improve incident response, as well as traveler information.
The CATT Lab has over 50 part time undergraduates, 13 graduate students and 10 full-time employees. In a webinar presentation in 2011, the director of the CATT Lab said that maintaining RITIS costs about $400,000 per year, but costs will increase as the number of participating agencies and amount of data continues to grow. These costs are covered largely by the participating DOTs and are supplemented by Department of Homeland Security grants.
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Operating and Maintaining RITIS Lab - $400,000 per year in 2011